The judoka needs to be equipped with highly combat skills and a wide range of abilities, be skilled in a large number of standardized and automated attack and defensive tactical actions, but, most of all, the trainer must pursue the operational intelligence’s development.

The judoka is the performer of tactical thinking, which they need to understand and accept, to actively and creatively participate in preparing tactics and putting together attack and counterattack tactical actions, by relating to the competition experience and opponents encountered.

During training, the trainer has to set out the objectives along with the athlete that the latter needs to achieve and create combat situations requiring a creative solution by making effective and fast decisions. Tactical abilities for the coach – athlete couple can be checked in friendly competitions in order to adjust the responses obtained for grand competitions.